Baron de Ley Rioja Reserva

Silken Spanish star acclaimed for both quality and value

Originally a castle-fortress built in 1548, the magnificent Baron de Ley winery creates suitably impressive Rioja. Their Reserva, barrel-aged in time-honoured fashion, is astonishing value for such mellow perfection.

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Tasting notes

With an attractive red ruby coulour with medium-high intensity, in the nose it suprises with a powerful fruit remarkably blended with traces from its noble ageing: coconut and toffee, evolving into seductive nuances of spices and mediterranean bush. The attack is truly powerful and develops in the mouth a pleasant sensation of volume and onctuosity with drives us to a long finish, nervous and fresh due to its optimum acidity, and bringing back an aftertaste with red fruits and again mediterranean bushes.

Selected cool-harvested grapes are traditionally vinified and then aged for 20 months in American oak barrels, followed by a further 24 months in bottle to round out the wine.

Baron de Ley is a winery which was devised and founded in 1985 by a small group of prestigious Rioja professionals which decided to create a project which was unique at that time in the Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja: a winery modelled on the Médoc châteaux, bringing together all the conditions that make a wine a work of art.

Perfect food match

Slow cooked lamb shank with a blackberry jus

Rioja and lamb are a classic combination. The addition of the blackberry jus, really brings out the fruit characters in the wine.